# \*dawr- 'clan, generation, group of relatives' 1, 'maternal aunt's children' 2, 'eternity' 3 A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on. - Author's gloss: generation, clan, family; eternity - SED semet 22 - Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/d/40_clan_generation_group_of_relatives_1_maternal_au.md ## In Linear A - [DA-RU-\*329]() (Dārum): personal name, 'Eternal'; rival Arabic Dārim - [DA-RU-NE-TE]() (Dāru-ʿAnēt): Anat is everlasting (theophoric personal name); rivals Dūr-ʿAnat 'Wall of Anat', and Egyptian Neith as the second element ## Notes Akk. dāru 'generation' is a West Semitic loan (AHw. 164b apud HALOT 217); Geez dor is a queried loan from Hebrew ('loan < Heb. ?', Leslau 16 apud HALOT 217). ## Reflexes: East Semitic - Akkadian: dāru; dārû 3 (CAD D 115) (gloss withheld) ## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic - Ugaritic: dr (DULAT 277) (gloss withheld) - Phoenician: dr (T 75); dr (T 74); dr bn ʾlm 1 (Krahmalkov 152) (gloss withheld) - Punic: dr 1 (Krahmalkov 151); Neo-Punic drʾ 1; Neo-Punic dhr 1, in wdhrnm (Krahmalkov 151); Neo-Punic drʾ 3 (Krahmalkov 152) (gloss withheld) - Hebrew: dōr (HALOT 217, 218); pB. dōr (Ja. 289) (gloss withheld) - Syrian Aramaic: dār- 'race of men (humankind), generation' (Brock 147) - Amorite: dāru (Streck 2000, 88; Streck 2011, 366); dārum, dūrum 3 (Gelb AS 21, 17, 18) (gloss withheld) - Biblical Aramaic: dār 1 (HALOT 217) (gloss withheld) ## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian - Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab dwr (Biella 81) (gloss withheld) ## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian - Gurage: Chaha dǝwǝrya (LGur 224) (gloss withheld) - Geez: dor (LGz. 141) (gloss withheld) --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/roots/40/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.